On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote: >> (Charlie Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>): >That's what I was planning to implement as a test, and that requires >the least special handling for INBOX.
It seems we all agree that permitting root-level folders would be a great feature. For backwards compatibility, we could allow selects on subfolders of INBOX by translating these into our "actual" format, so when selecting INBOX.a you're actually selecting "a". LIST would return the new format, and perhaps clients would "detect" that its subscribed folders no longer "exist" and then unsubscribe from them automatically. I'd have to test this, but I'm optimistic. Because of Binc's current behavior, we would always have to allow a select on INBOX.a to translate into a select on "a". At the same time, we could only allow subscription to folders using the new format, and only allow creates with the same rule. Thereby moving the users to a format where no subfolders are allowed under INBOX unless they are there "already". Anyway, it's a good thing to do things like this in early stage of development and not postpone it until the server gets really popular. I think we can make this work - I'm eager to try. Andy :-) -- Andreas Aardal Hanssen | http://www.andreas.hanssen.name/gpg Author of Binc IMAP | Nil desperandum
